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To be honest, if it weren't for the rush, Chen Ergou could also sit here for a day. Just quietly watch the animals play and enjoy a harmonious family life. Even those who are born to fly, run on the ground, and swim in the water are animals who like to visit the park.

The procession continued to march through the elephant village. In the waters along the way, Chen Ergou found rows of delicious food, including wild ginger, water lily, and aquatic herbs, like a big bowl of rich salad. …… It turns out that this is what attracts so many animals. This elephant village is like opening a unique window in the forest.

"Is it a bit reluctant?" said Jenny, looking back repeatedly.

Chen Ergou didn't look back, and said: "There's nothing to be reluctant to, even the animals know that this is just a park and not a place to live." After a group visit to the park, they will eventually return to the forest. Nothing exists here without the forest, because they know that it is the trees that create and protect this greenhouse of life. ”

But a clearing like this is just a drop in the ocean in a vast forest. Elephant herds can knock down trees to open the way, and use forest elephant paths in all directions to connect the many elephant villages scattered in the forest, but there is never a natural force that can restrain the forest...... Except for the Atlantic!

"Chen, do we have a goal to move forward with?" asked Old Baker.

Chen Ergou said: "Of course, I have thought about making a huge raft to hurry, but the location here is close to the Atlantic Ocean. Going down the river may wash us directly into the Atlantic, and the huge waves at the mouth of the sea are very dangerous, and if I am alone, I will not be afraid, but I cannot guarantee your safety. So I decided to continue borrowing this Elephant Highway, preferably directly to the Atlantic coast. Maybe a day or two away. ”

"Really?"

The crowd was overjoyed, for the first time they had heard the exact time they could go out.

Jenny rejoiced, "What if there are elephants in the way of the road?"

"At most, I just pay the toll and collect more bananas, fruits, and dried fruits. Don't you cross the highway and there are no toll booths?"

"Haha, Chen, I love this analogy. ”

There are no annoying vines and dead leaves blocking the way, and the atmosphere of the team is very relaxed.

Chen Ergou resumed the rhythm of the live broadcast in the past, and casually popularized the miracle of this forest to the audience. But it wasn't always smooth sailing, and a towering mahogany with a diameter of nearly seven meters suddenly fell in the middle of the road, blocking the elephant road ahead.

Of course, humans can directly climb over it, but elephants generally choose to take a detour when faced with this big tree blocking the road. In that case, the end of the elephant path ahead may end up, and they will fall into the dense forest again.

"What a big tree!"

"Oh my God, will such a tree fall too?"

Under the camera, everyone was amazed.

Chen Ergou said to the camera: "If there were farmers living here, they would definitely think that this is the best adobe in the world, rich in nutrients, thick and fertile." In fact, just a few centimeters below the ground, there is barren sand. He rubbed his foot against the layer of dirt under the leaves, and sure enough, he rubbed a piece of sand.

"You must wonder how such a large forest can be fed by adobe like this, and the answer is death and decay. ”

"Almost all of the nutrients in the rainforest are not in the adobe, but in the trees. The rosewood here grows so tall that the higher you go, the larger the canopy, and the danger of capsizing in stormy weather. The rain softened the soil, the wind swayed overhead, and then at an opportunity, the towering trees of dozens of meters collapsed. When a tree dies, it is equivalent to a large bag of food falling to the ground. ”

"And the forest recycling experts are termites. They inhabit bunker-like mounds and number up to two million of them. They can't use tongs to split the tree directly, but they do secrete a bacterium to do the decomposition. These fungi absorb the nutrients of the wood, and termites are eating the fungi!"

"Termite recycling is just the first of all, and there is an army underneath the adobe that continues to do the work, with millions of nematodes hiding in the adobe particles to break down fallen plants into smaller particles. In about six weeks, half of the fallen leaves and decaying wood can be removed. More of them are then broken down into bacteria, which are combined with the trunk of the large tree and transported above the trunk. ”

"Forests have a perfect recycling mechanism, which is also a realm that human technology has always aspired to achieve. The longer I've been here, the more I've come to understand that it's all connected. Plants depend on animals, and animals depend on plants. It's the same regardless of body size. ”

He walked around and searched for the place where the trunk of the tree joined the soil.

Anthony asked, "Chen, what are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for termite nests. It's a great tool to repel mosquitoes, and with it, at least don't worry about getting bitten by mosquitoes at night. ”

When everyone heard this, they immediately became moved and helped search for traces of termite nests, and no one was not afraid of mosquitoes. If you're in the city, even a mosquito buzzing in your ear at night can keep you awake all night. What's more, the whole jungle is full of buzzing mosquitoes flapping their wings at night.

"Found it. "Baker made a discovery.

"Okay, take a piece carefully. Don't get bitten by termites. ”

"How do I get it?"

“…… I'll do it. Chen Ergou took it upon himself to cut down a piece of wood-like termite nest, sweep away the dense termites with leaves, and then collect them.

Continue walking, and at noon it is the usual fruit to satisfy hunger.

When passing by a tree trunk, there was a muffled sound of "bump" on the side of the road ahead, and everyone was startled.

Hearing the prestige, it turned out to be a huge fruit, which had just staged a falling object from a high altitude. If a person happens to pass by below, won't he be smashed in the head?

Looking up with some fear, I realized that this tree was very strange, and on the bare trunk there were mushroom-like fruits, all of which were huge dried fruits in the shape of a navel.

"What kind of fruit is this?" asked Jenny, picking it up.

Old Baker was still checking, and Chen Ergou had already given the answer, "It's a belly squeeze fruit, a fruit that elephants like to eat very much." Let's hurry up, or we'll encounter elephants again. This kind of belly squeeze fruit can only be eaten by elephants, and it is rumored that they can hear the sound of the fruit falling to the ground and will quickly come and eat it. ”

When the people heard this, they didn't dare to stay longer.

The further you go, the more you walk from the trail to the main path, the more novel it feels.

"I think this road should take us where I'm looking for. "There are more and more trails that connect to the main roads, and now they are as busy as roads. This change strengthened the confidence of the three of them to follow Chen Ergou.

At this moment, there was a strange shout in the dense forest ahead, which looked like a song and an animal singing.

All three stopped, "What's that calling?"

Chen Ergou listened quietly for a while, then smiled with a sigh of relief: "It's a human being, we met the Pygmies living in the forest. ”

"It's human?!"

"Oh my God, have you finally met a human? ”

Everyone excitedly followed the sound, Chen Ergou saw that they were so excited, hesitated for a moment and still didn't appear to break their illusions. I followed the sound and walked forward, and then I came to a small tribal settlement.

A dozen natives looked at them strangely, not friendly but not hostile. Seeing such a state, the three people who had too much expectations in their hearts were the first to be lost, and they couldn't help but feel cold.

Not all of them were that tall, and there were some dwarfs walking around in the midst of them. They have to wear modern, proving that they are not isolated from the world. But most of the women and children don't wear anything else, but just tie a piece of bark or animal skin around their waist to cover their lower bodies.

Their skin is not bronzed but black, and the most striking thing is their height, which is only about three or four feet. is so short that it almost makes people think that they have entered the country of dwarves, or that they have met seven dwarfs in the fairy tale world.

"They are Pygmies!" Chen Ergou said, "This is the shortest human being in the world. Congo is so strange, it is rumored that there is also one of the tallest people on earth, the Wadusi people, who also live in the Congo jungle. If the Pygmies are Lilliputies, then the Wadusi are giants. ”

But after all, they belong to human beings, and the three Americans stepped forward to talk with expectations.

Chen Ergou did not participate behind him, and let Goudan use the camera to photograph the small jungle hut of the Pygmies like a beehive, which was not even as high as his waist. The tools of life are very primitive, and most of them are woven by themselves in the jungle.

The conversation between the three of them and the Pygmies was almost heavenly, each talking to each other, and no one could understand what they were saying to each other. Jenny was the first to get annoyed, and said in frustration: "I can't communicate at all." ”

"The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. ”